To Forgive Design : : Understanding Failure /

To Forgive Design : : Understanding Failure / / Henry Petroski.

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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Petroski, Henry,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ONE. By Way of Concrete Examples
  • TWO. Things Happen
  • THREE. Designed to Fail
  • FOUR. Mechanics of Failure
  • FIVE. A Repeating Problem
  • SIX. The Old and the New
  • SEVEN. Searching for a Cause
  • EIGHT. The Obligation of an Engineer
  • NINE. Before, during, and after the Fall
  • TEN. Legal Matters
  • ELEVEN. Back-Seat Designers
  • TWELVE. Houston, You Have a Problem
  • THIRTEEN. Without a Leg to Stand On
  • FOURTEEN. History and Failure
  • Notes
  • Illustrations
  • Index

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